Planning and Teaching Creatively Within a Required Curriculum for Adult Learners

This volume in TESOL s Language Curriculum Development Series presents the stories of teachers, curriculum developers, and administrators from all over the world who seek to understand adult learners needs and respond to them in creative, realistic, and effective ways. The contributors to this volume teach adult English language learners, and all have negotiated changes to the curriculum they were required to teach. The changes occurred in very different teaching contexts around the world and interacted in various ways with local factors. Despite these differences, the teachers shared a common goal: to sustain a viable, effective curriculum that reflected their values, beliefs, and ideals. This goal led the teachers to challenge the systems in which they worked and to struggle with the changes they believed necessary. The chapters offer living accounts of English language curricula as they occur in real classrooms for adult learners.